Your Guide to Hieroglyphics

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EGP650,00

The training course is titled “Hieroglyphics – The Sacred Writing and How to Read the Most Important Royal Cartouches, Formulas, and Structures.” The course aims to familiarize students with ancient Egyptian writing in general and hieroglyphics in particular, and to learn how to read Unilateral signs, Biliteral, and Triliteral signs. The course also aims to familiarize students with the most important royal cartouches, their meanings, and how to read them. Students will also learn the most important formulas and structures found on temple walls and various artefacts, and the most important rules of the Ancient Egyptian Language. At the end of the course, students will be trained on how to read all of the above on artefacts from various archeological sites and museums.

By the end of the course , the learner will be able to:

Differentiate the types of ancient Egyptian Writing.
Understand how to read single-, double-, and triple-vowel signs.
Read the most important royal cartouches and royal titles and their meanings.
Read the most important formulas and structures.
Read numbers and abbreviations.
Read any text on a tablet, coffin, or any other artifact.

Course Features

Lectures 10
Quiz 0
Duration 1680:00:00
Course Duration 01:33:00
Skill level All levels
Language Arabic
Students 0
Assessments Yes

Curriculumm

5 Sections
10 Lessons
10 Weeks

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Module 1: The Origins of Writing in Ancient Egypt
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- 1.1
  Introduction to the Scripts of the Ancient Egyptian Language
- 1.2
  Biphonic Signs and Triliteral Sounds – Determinative Signs
Module 2: Royal Titles and Key Traditional Formulas in Ancient Egyptian Scenes and Texts
2
- 2.1
  The Five Royal Titles – How to Read the Most Important Royal Cartouches
- 2.2
  The Offering Formula – Numbers
Module 4: Practical Application
4
Module 3: Verbs and Nouns in the Ancient Egyptian Language
2
- 4.1
  The Noun in Ancient Egyptian
- 4.2
  The Verb in Ancient Egyptian
References
References A. Arabic عبد الحليم نور الدين: اللغة المصرية القديمة، الطبعة الثالثة، 2002. B. Florien 1- Allen, J.P., Colloquial Middle Egyptian: some observation on the language of Heka Naskht, 1994. 2- Allen, J.P., The Ancient Egyptian Language, An Historical Study, 2013. 3- Bakir, A.M., An Introduction to study of the Egyptian Language. Middle Egyptian, Cairo, 1987. 4- Binick, R.I., Time and the verb: A guide to tense and aspect, New York, Oxford, 1991. 5- Cerny, J. & Groll, S.I., A Late Egyptian Grammar, Rome, 1975. 6- Depuydt, L., A history of research on the prospective Sdm.f forms in Middle Egyptian, JARCE 30, 1993, p. 11-31. 7- Doret, E., The narrative verbal system of Old and Middle Egyptian, Geneve, 1986. 8- Faulkner, R.O., A concise dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford, 1962. 9- Gardiner, A.H., Egyptian Grammar: introduction to study of Hieroglyphs, Oxford, London, 1957. 10- Gunn, B., A negative word in Old Egyptian, JEA 34, 1984, p.27-30. 11- Helck., W., Historisch-biographische Texte der 2. Zwischenzeit und Neue Texte der 18 Daynastie, Wiesbaden, 1983. 12- Leprieno, A., Ancient Egyptian: a linguistic introduction, Cambridge, 1995. 13- Thacker, T.W., The relationship of the Semitic and Egyptian verbal systems, Oxford, 1954.
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Dr. Ayat Abd El Aziz

Dr. Ayat Abdel Aziz Ali Ahmed Hassib
the Grand Egyptian MuseumHead of the Archaeological Registration and Documentation Department at the Grand Egyptian Museum

PhD degree in 2020 under the topic:
“Ancient Egyptian Social and Ideological Concepts of Lucky and Unlucky Days – a Comparative and philological Study of New Kingdom Calendars ".
Master's degree in Egyptian Antiquities Department in 2014 with grade Excellent, under Topic:
" Forms of metaphor in Ancient Egyptian texts from the Middle and New Kingdoms (Metonymy – Simile – Metaphor) (A linguistic Study).
• Participated in an international research at the Cairo University Conference entitled "Lucky and unlucky Days in Ancient Egyptian Texts and Their Relationship to the Daily Behavior of the Ancient Egyptians” Comparative Study (October 29:31 2017) Cairo University.

• Participated in the Medicine and Pharmacology in Egypt and Near East Conference of scientific research entitled "Diseases and epidemics through the papyrus Cairo calendar (No. 86637) in Egyptian Museum" from 18 to 20 October 2018 in the center of papyrological Studies and Inscriptions at Ain Shams University.
• Conducted “Workshop on the Method of Writing the Ancient Egyptian Language (Hieroglyphics)” in 2019 at the Centre for Papyrological and Epigraphic Studies at Ain Shams University.

Target audiences

Tour guides
Master's and PHD degree holders in the same field.
Those who are passionate about learning and reading the ancient Egyptian language.
Students in various departments as well as private and public universities.